Maiden
['meɪd(ə)n] or ['medn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
(n.) A female servant.
(n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
(n.) A machine for washing linen.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
(a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
(a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
(a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
(v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.
手打:凯勒
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Girl, virgin, MAID.
a. [1]. Of maids, of virgins.[2]. Pure, chaste, undefiled, virgin.[3]. Fresh, new.
錄入:文斯
解釋/意思:
n. a maid: in Scotland a machine like the guillotine formerly used for beheading criminals.—adj. pertaining to a virgin or young woman: consisting of maidens: (fig.) unpolluted: fresh: new: unused: first: that has never been captured said of a fortress.—ns. Maid′enhair a name given to a fern from the fine hair-like stalks of its fronds; Maid′enhood Maid′enhead the state of being a maid: virginity: purity: freshness; Maid′enliness.—adjs. Maid′enly maiden-like: becoming a maiden: gentle: modest; Maid′en-meek (Tenn.) meek as a maiden; Maid′en-tongued gentle in voice like a girl; Maid′en-wid′owed widowed while still a virgin.—n. Maid′hood (Shak.).—Maiden assize an assize at which there are no criminal cases; Maiden battle a first contest; Maiden fortress a fortress that has never been captured; Maiden name the family name of a married woman before her marriage; Maiden over in cricket an over in which no runs are made; Maiden speech the first public speech made by a person esp. in Parliament; Maiden stakes in horse-racing the money contended for in a race between horses that have never run before.
手打:维罗妮卡
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime. The genus has a wide geographical distribution being found wherever sought and deplored wherever found. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye nor (without her piano and her views) insupportable to the ear though in respect to comeliness distinctly inferior to the rainbow and with regard to the part of her that is audible bleaten out of the field by the canary—which also is more portable.
安琪編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Much cant have I heard and read about 'maiden modesty,' but, properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate words. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Her voice faltered and her hand trembled, and it was only the cold question of Ivanhoe, Is it you, gentle maiden? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I have no portion in thee, cruel, hard-hearted man, said the unfortunate maiden. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Speak, maiden! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Given once, the pure bashful maiden was too modest, too tender, too trustful, too weak, too much woman to recall it. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He only replied, Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Let them insult my maiden pride as they will--I walk pure before God! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- But you, maiden, said Rowena--you surely can have nothing to fear. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It is against my vow to love any maiden, otherwise than 'par amours', as I will love thee. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Get along with you, you wretch,' said the hand-maiden, obviously not ill-pleased with the compliment, however. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I laughed outright, and she joined me in as gay a shout as ever country maiden in old Orange county. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I may not deny what thou hast challenged, said the Grand Master, provided the maiden accepts thee as her champion. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- When all was ready, Margaret opened the study door, and went in like a serving-maiden, with a heavy tray held in her extended arms. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I have chosen no death, maiden, I replied. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Here we may take it that there is a love matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or grieved. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Let all young men present mark this: 'The maidens all flocked to his boat so readily. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The maidens of Valhalla look forth, The race of Hengist will send them guests. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Quickly I ordered fifty of the prisoners to drop back behind us and form a new circle about the maidens. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I'll trouble you for a pin, my dear, said Armstrong to one of his attendant maidens. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Most of these maidens were not wealthy, but some few had been very kindly dealt with by fortune. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- That room was their boat; that audience were the maidens; and he (Mr. Anthony Humm), however unworthily, was 'first oars' (unbounded applause). 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- When they entered, they found themselves in the presence of about twenty matrons and maidens of distinguished Saxon lineage. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Shake your black tresses, maidens of Valhalla! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But, was it the maidens of humble life only, who soothed, consoled, and supported him? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Now enters the chorus proper of young Greek maidens, dressed in black stoles, to denote the sorrowful condition of their country. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Sir Templar, said he, the cheeks of our Saxon maidens have seen too little of the sun to enable them to bear the fixed glance of a crusader. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The sisterhood, the maidens, flocking round the young waterman, and urging him along the stream of duty and of temperance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- To look for a glove that was dropped by one of the maidens. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
整理:玛丽斯